Frontal cortex subregions play distinct roles in choices between actions and stimuli

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 13775-13785

  Rudebeck, Peter H ^a,c   Behrens, Timothy E ^a   Kennerley, Steven W ^b   Baxter, Mark G ^a   Buckley, Mark J ^a   Walton, Mark E ^a   Rushworth, Matthew F S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulate; Decision; Learning; Macaque; Prefrontal cortex; Reward

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL CORTEX; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; DECORTICATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTOLOGY; MACACA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL DECORTICATION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 58149378318     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3541-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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